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Urbanization and Land Use 城镇化与集约用地, 2014, 2, 1-7 Published Online March 2014 in Hans. /journal/ulu /10.12677/ulu.2014.21001 Power Law Distribution of Urban Population in China 1 2 2 Shih-Kung Lai , Haoying Han , Ming Fang 1 Department of Real Estate and Built Environment, National Taipei University, New Taipei City 2 Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Email: lai@.tw, hanhaoying@, mingf@ th th nd Received: Jan. 14 , 2014; revised: Jan. 17 , 2014; accepted: Jan. 22 , 2014 Copyright © 2014 by authors and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Power law is a common phenomenon in natural and social sciences, including cities. Though many attempts have been made to understand the underlying mechanisms of the power law phenome- non, it means a lot to cities. This phenomenon is a manifestation of an emerging, objective law in urban population distribution, which can serve as a basis not only for theory construction from the top down, but also for simulations on urban complex systems from the bottom up, in particular as a reference for urban and regional policy making in China. Through mass urban population sta- tistics, we found in the present paper that the R2 values for the urban population distribution in China were high, indicating that distribution fulfills the requirement of the power law distribution. In addition, the q values scattered around unity, fulfilling the requirement of the rank-size rule. Starting from 1999 through 2009, the evolution toward